Power tends to Corrupt


Work is done by those who understand what they do not manage and dominated by those who manage what they do not understand.
-- Putt's Law



The American ethos is realistic about human corruptibility. The Constitution codifies a system of checks and balances based on the principle that unconstrained power tends to be abused. Puritan notions and the framers knowledge of history went into the separation of powers that is now considered to be integral to sound governance. Neglect of both the premises and the principle of constraint in corporate management has made business entities into hierarchies of self-serving ambition in an environment of intimidation and counterproductive, networked incompetence. Business has become the domain of an aristocracy. Nearly every working person contends with the resulting dysfunction on a daily basis. Working dangerously is to acknowledge the pervasiveness of bad management while trying to remain employed.

Turn the other cheek and read this blog for perspective. It's cheaper than a psychiatrist.


Monday, September 12, 2011

Union bosses give themselves a Labor Day pay raise

The Service Employees International Union has a firm hold in California, where it represents 350,000 government workers. Still, the union's Local 1000, which represents state administrative workers, is flirting with rebellion with the latest proposal of its leadership to sharply raise the salaries of its current officers. Jon Ortiz has the details at the Sacramento Bee's blog of a plan that would more than triple the salary of SEIU 1000's president to $150,000 plus benefits, and cost the local some $295,000 in total. What's so fascinating is that this proposal, coming as it is during a time when union members face layoffs and givebacks, is being put forward by a union whose members are perpetually in a rebellious state. This won't help.

http://www.publicsectorinc.com/forum/2011/09/seiu-flirts-with-rebellion.html

http://blogs.sacbee.com/the_state_worker/2011/09/seiu-local-1000-council-to-con.html
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